List of Abbreviations
Preface
Acknowledgements
Publisher’s Acknowledgements
PART I: CIVIL SOCIETY :
CHAPTER I
Civil Society and its Discontents
A Million Mutinie
Defining Civil Society
Civil Society through Legal Eyes
The Great Surrender
Civil Society as Struggle
The Struggle over Ideology
Civil Disobedience
Civil Society and its Discontents
The Crowd
Media
Civil Society Forever
PART II: ADVENT OF ANNA HAZARE :
CHAPTER II
Knowing Anna Hazare
Who Wants a Lokpal?
Governance and its Discontents: Anna as Threat?
Institutionalised Democratic Governance
PART III: THE CIVIL SOCIETY ALTERNATIVE (2010) :
CHAPTER III
Lokpal and ‘Jan’ Lokpal
The Government Lokpal Bill of 2010
Reaction to the Government Lokpal Bill of 2010
Jan Lokpal Bills
Draft Jan Lokpal Bill of 2010 (Version 1.8)
Jan Lokpal Bill of 2011 (Version 2.1)
Jan Lokpal Bill of 2011 (Version 2.2)
Jan Lokpal Bill of 2011 (Version 2.3)
PART IV: THE VOICE OF DISSENT (2011) :
CHAPTER IV
The Lokpal Bill Sleeps
A Background (2010–11)
Anna’s First Fast
Rift within the Joint Committee
Proceedings of the Joint Drafting Committee, 16 April–21 June 2011
The Ramdev Controversy
The Cabinet Meeting
CHAPTER V
Lokpal Bills of 2011
New Drafts
Official Bill 2011
Aruna Roy’s Contributions
Government’s Grievance Redressal Bill (131 of 2011)
CHAPTER VI
The August of Kranti
Jail Bharo and Anna’s Arrest
The Nation Reacts
The Prime Minister’s Move
The Next Day in Parliament
The PM’s Speech in Parliament
A ‘Second Freedom Movement’?
Finding Solutions
‘Fast’ Negotiations
Sense of the House Resolution: Parliament Debates
CHAPTER VII
Come September and Beyond
Other Issues of Contention
An October of Controversies
November of Clarifications
Proceedings of the Standing Committee
(48th) Standing Committee’s Report on the Lokpal Bill
Points of Contention
Parliament Debates the (48th) Committee Report
CHAPTER VIII
The Denouement
Anna’s Third Fast
All-Party Meet
Lokpal and Lokayuktas Bill of December 2011
The Bill goes to Parliament
Parliament Debates, 27 December 2011
The Aftermath
In the Rajya Sabha, 29 December 2011
PART V: OVERTURE: PARTING OF WAYS (2012)
CHAPTER IX
Parting of Ways
Beginning of the End
Anna meets Baba Ramdev
The Fast of 3 June 2012
The 24 July Fast
Political Activism
Passing the Baton
Parting of Ways
Aam Aadmi Kejriwal
Anna Team 2.0
Kejriwal’s Journey from IAC to AAP
Rajya Sabha Select Committee
PART VI: ANNA’S LEGACIES (2013–15)
CHAPTER X
Anna’s Legacies
The Lokpal Bill of the Union
Anna’s other Legacy: AAP
The Constitutional Status of Delhi AAP in the Future
Legends and Legacies
PART VII: IN CONCLUSION
CHAPTER XI
Recognising Activism
Afterword
Inherited Governance
Constitutional Absorption
Motifs of Governance
Lokpal and Governance
Success or Failure
Index